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Religion Stats: compare key data on Australia & Sweden

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STAT Australia Sweden HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 556,563
Ranked 18th. 9 times more than Sweden
63,836
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 290
Ranked 9th. 7 times more than Sweden
40
Ranked 39th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 136,617
Ranked 11th. 15 times more than Sweden
9,404
Ranked 49th.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 563,100
Ranked 24th. 5 times more than Sweden
103,027
Ranked 36th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 38%
Ranked 30th.
86%
Ranked 6th. 2 times more than Australia
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.5%
Ranked 113th.
4%
Ranked 92nd. 3 times more than Australia
Jehovahs Witnesses 61,444
Ranked 27th. 3 times more than Sweden
22,561
Ranked 43th.
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 1.9%
Ranked 110th.
4.9%
Ranked 89th. 3 times more than Australia
Muslim > Muslim population 399,000
Ranked 91st.
451,000
Ranked 87th. 13% more than Australia
Religions Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian 20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census) Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian 20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census) Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 32%
Ranked 131st. 94% more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 67.5%
Ranked 13th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 23% more than Australia
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 51,843
Ranked 47th. 19 times more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 2.7
Ranked 28th. 2 times more than Sweden
1.1
Ranked 37th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 2.58
Ranked 81st. 8 times more than Sweden
0.308
Ranked 127th.
Jews 100,000
Ranked 11th. 6 times more than Sweden
18,000
Ranked 27th.
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 2.5%
Ranked 15th. 4 times more than Sweden
0.7%
Ranked 29th.
Hindus 276,000
Ranked 21st. 31 times more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Religious diversity score 0.821
Ranked 3rd. 4 times more than Sweden
0.234
Ranked 157th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 3.13
Ranked 52nd. 24% more than Sweden
2.53
Ranked 66th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 7.63 million
Ranked 10th.
7.74 million
Ranked 9th. 1% more than Australia
Jews per 1000 5.34
Ranked 13th. 3 times more than Sweden
2.03
Ranked 23th.
Hindus per thousand people 12.36
Ranked 27th. 13 times more than Sweden
0.946
Ranked 61st.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.26
Ranked 20th. 7 times more than Sweden
0.04
Ranked 37th.
Christian > Mormon > Temples 5
Ranked 2nd. 5 times more than Sweden
1
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 1,984
Ranked 5th. 20 times more than Sweden
100
Ranked 18th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Protestantism by country (Top sixty countries by number and percentage of Protestants); International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: Islam by country (Table) ("Muslim Population by Country" . The Future of the Global Muslim Population . Pew Research Center . Retrieved 22 December 2011 .); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006; Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; Wikipedia: List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level (Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization) (Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012). "Measuring cultural diversity: ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization in the OECD" . Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (2): 195–217 . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .); watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); Wikipedia: Quakers (Africa) (Nuttall, Geoffrey (1955). "Early Quakerism in the Netherlands: Its wider context" . The Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 44 (1): 3–18. Gragg, Larry (2009). The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826218476 . Friends World Committee for Consultation (2007) 'Finding Quakers around the World http://www.fwccamericas.org/publications/images/fwcc_map_2007_sm.gif, )

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